Where does “speechfulness” come from?
speechfulness (English) comes from English speechful, from English speech, from Middle English speche, from Old English spǣċ, from Proto-West Germanic *sprāku.
speechfulness (English): Quality of being speechful
Definitions
- Quality of being speechful
Ancestry of “speechfulness”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | English | speechful | voluble; loquacious; The entire contents of a... |
| 2 | English | speech | The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or... |
| 3 | Middle English | speche | speaking, speech; dialogue, discussion,... |
| 4 | Old English | spǣċ | — |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | *sprāku | — |